The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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